There Is A Severe Lack of Acceptance of RP Over Practicality

Rant r/TeenGovernment u/Magmaflamefire2 posted 2026-01-20 19:58 UTC ↑5 · 86% 11 comments

When proposing legislation such as my Reform to Make Prisons More Rehabilitative Act or proposing that we keep the economy just RP, I find myself either ignored or people complain that "we don't have\_\_\_\_."

These societal restrictions on keeping laws strictly ones that can be implemented with practicality within Reddit severely limit our RP potential. There are so many things that we could do if we were simply open to the idea of having some things be RP, while we don't actually have tools to implement things, we can still pretend that they exist. I should be able to open a restaurant without people telling me that I can't actually serve food on Reddit. The DoR does this, why can't we?

4 comments

Kooky_Marketing_327 2026-01-20 19:59 UTC ↑-1

I mean look at the DoR now… (not saying this is a bad idea)

Magmaflamefire2 2026-01-20 20:01 UTC ↑4 OP

The DoR's problems have been caused by really only two things:

1. Harassment and bigotry over things like race, gender, etc.

2. Lack of moderation's ability to control these issues (mainly because it happened mostly on discord)

Due_Camel6262 2026-01-20 19:59 UTC ↑3

The DoR has a map, and it's a lot older and more developed than us.

Magmaflamefire2 2026-01-20 20:03 UTC ↑-1 OP

But that doesn't mean that we can't develop? It's not like we need to be an older and developed subreddit for more RP legislation.

And how are we supposed to get a map when we reject RP legislation?

Due_Camel6262 2026-01-20 20:07 UTC ↑3

You're putting the cart before the horse. Just because council hasn't accepted this pretty meaningless piece of legislation doesn't mean we reject ALL RP legislation. When we have a map, we can have prisons. When we have prisons, we can make them how you want them.

Magmaflamefire2 2026-01-20 20:08 UTC ↑-1 OP

Why would we need a map for prisons?

We didn't need a map to have a council.

Due_Camel6262 2026-01-20 20:09 UTC ↑4

We needed a legislative branch, prisons can come later. 

Priorities, magma. Priorities.

Magmaflamefire2 2026-01-20 20:43 UTC ↑-1 OP

I get having legislative branch before having prisons. I just don't get why we can't pass laws about prisons before maps. Like why do we specifically need a map before prison law? Shouldn't we have laws about prisons before they're even built on a map?

Due_Camel6262 2026-01-20 20:44 UTC ↑1

No one is thinking about prisons. When we are considering more RP, inteoduce this bill this

Corgrarr 2026-01-20 20:08 UTC ↑3

I like this idea I like these things because of rp 

roemaencepartnaer 2026-01-21 01:44 UTC ↑2

You know what, that is a fair point. I guess will all the insistence on having actual economy I forgot that this was the point.

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